Olivia

“Math is for followers, for sheep, for people who are obsessed with right and wrong, with black and white. And since I’m not naturally inclined to racism, I don’t enjoy mathematics.”
― Peter Brown Hoffmeister, This Is the Part Where You Laugh

“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“In the beginning there was faith—which is childish; trust—which is vain; and illusion—which is dangerous. We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark from the Shekhinah’s flame; that every one of us carries in his eyes and in his soul a reflection of God’s image. That was the source if not the cause of all our ordeals.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“You humans always think you’re destined for things, for tragedy or for greatness. Destiny is a myth. Destiny is the only myth. The gods choose nothing. You chose.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War